Kathmandu, September 12 :

The House of Representatives (HoR) today unanimously passed the bill related to Public Document Authentication, and also formed a panel to amend the HoR Regulations — 2006. The HoR had passed the Regulations on June 10.

The Regulations is being amended because the Parliamentary Hearing Special Committee could not function, as a result of which the government could not name three candidates for the purpose of appointing one of them as an ambassador. The Regulations states that the Special Committee should conduct a hearing on nominated candidates for the post of ambassadors and heads of constitutional bodies and furnish its suggestion to the government within 10 working days.

“Intellectuals suggested that the provision of conducting a hearing on three candidates was technically impractical, so the Regulations had to be amended to make it relevant,” MP Ananda Dhungana, who is a member of the Committee, told reporters on HoR premises.

Lawmakers Tek Bahadur Chokhyal and Mahendra Pandey are other members of the committee. The HoR Regulations amendment committee was formed after the HoR today unanimously passed MP Prashu Ram Meghi Gurung’s proposal to form a committee for amending the Regulations.

The members of the committee told reporters that the new provisions had already been discussed and agreed to at the top level and the draft of the amendment would be tabled in the HoR at the earliest.